Stanley Kubrick's Transhuman Starchild
​By ​Michael Pearce

At the end of Stanley Kubrick’s prescient allegorical masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, the pragmatic astronaut Dave Bowman is transformed into an embryonic star-child, hovering over the blue sphere of earth as the threat and promise of an unpredictable future. It is a sinister moment, for although the image of a baby is always a symbol of hope and potential, triggering good sentiments of nurture, parental guidance, and care, the star-child is no longer human. 

To achieve this new form, Bowman has passed through the liminal and transforming enigma of a multidimensional black megalith, placed in the orbit of Jupiter millennia ago by an alien intelligence that has waited timelessly for humans to achieve interplanetary travel. When Bowman, who is a bland and generic representative of humanity, enters the expanded time and space of the black megalith, he is abandoned to transcendent multidimensionality, experiencing the terrifying mysteries of an inexplicable and ageless journey through vast atomic horizons and claustrophobic atmospheres of compressed light and color...
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